Mars Climate Orbiter

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Science

 

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Mary W

 

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December 6, 2013

 

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University

 

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A

 

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In September of 1999, scientists at NASA lost contact with a multi-million dollar project during an atmospheric entry to mars all because of a human error. Scientists from different fields came together to design and program the Mars Climate Orbiter, but did not utilize a universal measuring system for the entire project...
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This confusion should not have happened because of the man-hours put in by scientists hundreds of years ago. All scientists, early in their education, are taught units help interpret numbers. In the NASA project, scientist excluded units and used the metric system in part of the software and then the imperial system in the rest of the software...
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